5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (404+ words) Murray Rothbard saw the state as an inherently predatory institution that seeks total control over the individual. To achieve this control, he believed that the state seeks to weaken or destroy intermediate institutions—most notably the nuclear family. While government…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (163+ words) David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 as a body more elite than the CFR, and it placed its people in office. Rothbard runs through the Carter appointments post by post, from Brzezinski and Vance to Volcker at the Fed,…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (217+ words) The JP calls for the US taxpayer to pay a "debt forgiveness for military service" program to enlarge the US's standing army. The whole point being to further subsidize the state of Israel. The Jerusalem Post Calls for More Americans…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (170+ words) Kissinger rose through a Council on Foreign Relations study group and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, receiving $50,000 from Nelson Rockefeller three days before taking office under Nixon. Rothbard covers the secret bombing and invasion of Cambodia and the $8 million the CIA…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (162+ words) Johnson kept the hawks and replaced doves as they were ousted. Rothbard details the July 1965 meeting at which escalation was decided and the committee of power-elite figures formed to back it, along with Ellsworth Bunker’s role in the invasion of…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (164+ words) Rothbard traces Kennedy’s foreign policy appointments back to Lovett, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Lehman Brothers, then to the Bay of Pigs and the sugar company interests entangled with it. The chapter closes on Kennedy’s last foreign policy act: the green…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (168+ words) The Council on Foreign Relations emerged from a 1921 merger, Morgan-dominated from top to bottom, with Elihu Root as honorary president and Morgan’s chief counsel as president. Rothbard recounts the founding of its journal Foreign Affairs, and how after World War…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (176+ words) Rothbard reads the Second World War through rival interests: Rockefeller pressure for war with Japan over oil and rubber, Morgan commitment to Britain and France. He then follows the postwar Eastern Establishment, its “Cowboy” Sun Belt challengers, and the CIA…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (154+ words) After Arbenz nationalized uncultivated United Fruit holdings, Eisenhower assigned the CIA a counter-revolution. Rothbard maps the interlocking boards behind it—Sullivan and Cromwell, the Schroder bank, International Railways of Central America—and the Council on Foreign Relations study group whose…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (169+ words) Rothbard traces the Milner Group from Rhodes’s 1891 society through its command of British postwar planning and the expert delegation at Versailles, to the founding of the Institute of International Affairs in Paris in 1919. Its first American member had come to…...